Keeps the fun going. Or at least for people like me.

I got great feedback about the color scheme of the blog and green over brown is not the best color combination for reading. Thanks Claude. I hope this blue starry night scheme will be better. One quick last word, the green and brown were the closest colors back for my local famed Robert Weil Associates period.

Enough said, a little bit about this past weekend. We had a fabulous three day weekend where we took our spider and rolled up to San Luis Obispo then Cambria. There is something about that part of California we both love. Maybe it’s the wide open space!

We met a dear friend of ours who lives in SLO on Friday night with her parents. It was nice to see her and get a feel of the wonderful pace of this fun yet gentle city. Saturday, we met our Alfa club fellow members for breakfast and off to wine country. It was fun.

Californian wines.
Hum, some good, some not so good for this palate. Maybe it’s because I was raised on different wines but some Californian wines and just too oaky and thick for my taste. I like my wine to be subtle, that also means under 14 degrees. It’s just me. There were great surprises along the way, Harmony and J. Paul Rosilez. Great wines and after talking to them, I felt relieved I wasn’t the only one with weird taste buds. One thing though, any bottles over $10 or 20 is out of control. And I guess here my background betrays the choice and quality of wines I could have for $2 to 5.

I feel it is one thing to pay a nice sum for a Chateuneuf-du-Pape or Nuits St-George but the trend for any wines out in the Paso Roble area is $25 on an average. At that price I expect something different and aged more than 10 years. And what is going with the lack of Merlots? Does everything need to be Pinot Noir now since “the movie” as it was referred to? Are people so trendish they don’t trust their own taste buds? You see the secret is that there are great wines and there is what you like. That’s it. But I digress as usual.

We met some new friends in the club, Claude and his wonderful wife (darn memory!) and his son Brian and wonderful wife (again, darn memory!) It was great speaking French to this Belgium born car guy who spent most of his life in the south of France. You see one of the best part about our club is that it is not snobbish and very welcoming. We even have members who don’t own an Alfa. Claude graced me with some very nice stories accompanied with many beers. It was too hot for wine

It was a fun weekend. Wish we had more like these.